Dear All,
It seems everyone is now slashing the prices for publication!!! Its all
result of the pressure from the OA advocates and Researchers?
Its a welcome sign but as heather rightly said, if $99 is the price for
publication of an article? seeing the funding for the research and
absolutely no
I echo Nathan Hosburgh's note of caution about this move by Sage. As well as
the points Nathan makes, we must remember that publishers are competing for
market share, especially at a time of change in the market. To me the $99
offer reads like a traditional loss-leader to make an early grab for
What does $99 buy in terms of publication? Do we know yet? Does it get you more
than putting the paper in a repository, for free?
The case for green is publish in your journal of choice, which could be a green
or gold journal, and make the paper open access in a repository. So you could
choose
Some reflections on the Sage OPEN $99 per article news
Sridar Gutam on the GOAL list has pointed out that even this APF, for a scholar
from India, is far too high a price. Even in the West, I hear that there are
rumblings on HSS listservs that scholars are up in arms about what looks like
an
Note that Sage OPEN does provide professional copyediting services, according
to the Sage OPEN FAQ:
http://sgo.sagepub.com/site/misc/FAQs.xhtml
This requires a little tweaking of my estimates below. With 5 articles
published per day, I think that between a full-time Managing Editor and junior
